(Updated by: Giles)
This is certainly the most memorable journey to date. We had heard tales of the kind of days that people had spent covering the same journey so we were a little prepared for it but it just seemed that everything that could take longer than stated, did, and every transport means that had seemed the direst yet was immediately surpassed by the subsequent set of wheels that appeared to convey us on our way !
07:30 depart Bangkok on 'VIP' coach (well it had aircon, even if you couldnt turn it off)
11:30 arrive near Cambodian...